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Well some of the new rich, tech guys are clearly insane. Peter Thiel cannot stop talking about the Antichrist, for example. I don't understand what was so different about the robber barons of the past, who at least had some obsession with their legacy enough to go around building schools and libraries to name after themselves.

The robber barons of the past gave us the Great Depression and WWII.
> Well some of the new rich, tech guys are clearly insane. Peter Thiel cannot stop talking about the Antichrist, for example.

Agreed on the insanity and it seems to be getting worse over time.

I personally think its due to malignant narcissism bumping up into the (subconscious) midlife realization that there is no chance their theoretical singularity god will arrive in time to make them immortal.

Sorry bro(ligarch)s, you're all going to end up as worm food just like the rest of us. There isn't any amount of underground concrete bunker wall thickness that is going to change that.

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